Sample Sentences for
relentless
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    We were frightened by the relentless beat of the drums.
    relentless = continuing without stopping
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    With its rolling, relentless rhythm, it seemed to urge her onward, saying, Go down, go away, go now.  (source)
    relentless = continuing in a steady manner
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    The sun was relentless and eternal: There was neither wisp of cloud nor whiff of breeze for relief.  (source)
    relentless = continued without stopping in an extreme manner
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    The tiger-cages of the kingdom were searched for the most savage and relentless beasts, from which the fiercest monster might be selected for the arena;  (source)
    relentless = who would attack in a severe manner without stopping
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    Relentlessly, as this happens, three more horses appear in cones of light: not naturalistic animals like the first three, but dreadful creatures out of nightmare.  (source)
    Relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
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    Adam's relentlessness crossed over onto the football field, where he was the star tackler and earned the defensive player of the year award before the Browns moved again, this time to Indian Springs, Nevada.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The purlins were heavy and the sun relentless.†  (source)
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    "Let's be moving," said Jack relentlessly, "we're wasting time."†  (source)
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    The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke's; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down— Then it was that the cruelty of the sea, its relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me.†  (source)
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    The most relentless of his new fears was that they would starve.†  (source)
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    His father went quietly and relentlessly on.†  (source)
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    It was out of this relentlessness, not out of the gush of tears, that there would be a child again.†  (source)
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    But it was relentless and so heavy that you couldn't even see the person standing in front of you.†  (source)
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